US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Feb. 3 for "Secured onboarding of temporarily transferred endpoint devices" (Massachusetts, New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,687, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Secured onboarding of temporarily transferred endpoint devices" was invented by Bradley K. Goodman (Nashua, N.H.) and Joseph Caisse (Burlington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for managing endpoint devices are disclosed. The endpoint devices may be managed by onboarding them. To onboard the endpoint devices, ownership vouchers may be used to cryptographically verify to which entities authority over the endpoint devices have been delegated. The ownership vouchers may also include temporary delegations of ownership and/or authority fr...